Legal Planet

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Last year, the California Legislature enacted SB 9 , which required local governments to allow duplexes (and with ADUs, sometimes triplexes and quadraplexes) in single-family zones. Photograph by Eli Pousson, 2018 April 24. As former Secretary of State George Shultz said of American politics: It’s Never Over. Download as PDF.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 4, 2023

It gained traction in California in 2018, although that particular effort fell short. This is especially useful when dealing with transmission across state lines that can often face political and financial obstacles. Governance would expand beyond state borders. It’s not a new concept.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

State and local governments must at the same time implement policies that reduce heat trapping emissions, thereby helping to slow the pace of climate change, and implement policies– to which we are already committed –that prepare us for the impacts of a changing climate. Source: UCS, Toward Climate Resilience, 2016.

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Legal Planet

APRIL 13, 2023

The new wave of litigation also arose from the urgency of combating the rise in deforestation under the right-wing-oriented President Jair Bolsonaro, who left the government in January 2023 for the return of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (Lula). The decision was made in a lawsuit filed by four political parties (PSB et al.

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Government adopts a sector-by-sector plan to reach 2050 climate goals. The government proposes new measures to help meet the 2030 climate target, including 80% renewables by 2030. My foray into Germany climate policy left me with unanswered questions: What was the politics behind Germany’s history of climate action?

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The issue boils down to the fact that the government is not collecting enough money to pay for cleanup. . Illinois keeps about $8,000 per acre in bonding, according to 2018 data published by Climate Home News, and Indiana and Kentucky had only about $4,000 per acre. . A Political Quagmire. Photo © Prairie Rivers Network.

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A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

President-elect Gabriel Boric’s new government must address issues of decarbonisation, water crisis and lithium nationalisation, all while rewriting the country’s constitution. In our government, it will be a priority to avoid this destruction and to have development that is compatible with the environment.”. By Francisco Parra Galaz

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A 2018 deal showed the tremendous speculative value of land/water deals in the Columbia River Basin. Northwest Natural Holding Company— formed in 2018 as the parent company of longtime Portland-based NW Natural Gas Company—has recently expanded into public water utility ownership. Department of Agriculture 2018 report .

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 21, 2024

For more than a century, the United States has recognized this, and maintaining roads and bridges has been a core function of federal, state, and local governments. The federal government embraced a role in supporting transit in the 1970s, but this was cut back for the past 40 years and didn’t rebound until the pandemic.

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Circle of Blue

MAY 11, 2022

But Michigan’s experience shows how political conflicts and logistical challenges can complicate the math. Water experts and government regulators are increasingly pushing for consolidation as many Michigan water treatment facilities age beyond their intended lifespan, forcing decisions about whether to spend millions on a rebuild.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2021

As a government delegate, I have been involved in the UN climate negotiation process since 2017 to uphold Bangladesh’s and the Least Developed Countries (LDC) Group’s position. Negotiations over Article 6 were highly technical and contentious in COP24 (2018) and COP25 (2019) but were then finally agreed at the last moment of COP26.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The two industry-funded studies ( NERA 2008 and ACT Research 2022 ) claim much higher impact on sales than either the academic (RZW 2018) or government ( EPA 2021 ) studies. Four studies purporting to examine whether a pre-buy effect occurred on heavy-duty truck sales can’t agree on the magnitude or timing of any such effect.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2022

In 2018, the GCF Task Force endorsed Guiding Principles for Collaboration and Partnership Between Subnational Governments, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities. A key element of the actions that GCF Task Force states and provinces are taking to reverse these trends is close partnership with Indigenous peoples and local communities.

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Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

By Ceciel Nieuwenhout, Postdoctoral researcher at GCELS and City Council member for GroenLinks On 17 March 2021 the people of the Netherlands will elect a new House of Representatives ( Tweede Kamer) , which also kickstarts the formation process for a new government ( regering). This blog consists of three parts.

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Legal Planet

JUNE 2, 2023

Digitalization is reshaping environmental governance in profound ways. To explore the intersection of digitalization and environmental governance and the power dynamics that are at play, I interviewed three social scientists on the matter. The Belizean government is another strong proponent of SMART, Stinson claims.

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Law Columbia

APRIL 26, 2024

For this finding, the Court interpreted ECHR rights dynamically in line with international climate goals and commitments, relying on the scientific and political consensus about climate change and its negative impacts. For example, in September 2018, the Dutch Supreme Court in Urgenda v. 8 European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).

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PA Environment Daily

JANUARY 6, 2025

State Agency Closure Notice: State Government Offices Under Governors Jurisdiction Closed Monday, January 6 In These Locations - Harrisburg, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Reading -- DEP Citizens Advisory Council Meets Jan. House Floor. March 3-- House Appropriations Committee Budget Hearing: 1:00- Public Utility Commission. House Floor.

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Enviromental Defense

APRIL 22, 2024

Even Premier Ford has voiced opposition against this quarry, emphasizing its rejection during public meetings and through statements by local political representatives. Despite this, pursuit of this environmentally and socially disruptive project continues, squandering taxpayer money and government resources. Ask them to send it on.

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Legal Planet

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It’s the lowest level for the month of August since 2018 and it continues a downward trend. Q: The Brazilian government knows about these gains thanks to satellite data from Brazil’s space research agency. But in 2023 the script has been flipped and the good news keeps on coming. percent compared to last August. Gray: Yes, for sure.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 25, 2021

They are slow to begin but can last indefinitely, some “megadroughts” upending social and political stability over several decades. Al Jazeera reports that although the funds were already approved by Congress, the Idaho Republican used procedures under a 2018 U.S. Drought, like a fearsome boxer, has a long reach. 145 PERCENT .

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 18, 2024

Since 2018 especially, something has been hinky in Ontario. Emails, ERO input, mass protests, appeals to the federal government to intervene – it was all or nothing for the Greenbelt and democracy. First, hundreds of clean energy contracts were cancelled with the stroke of a pen. You know when you can feel it in your gut, right?

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Physics World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

One was to observe nuclear testing at Bikini Atoll as one of the two representatives from the Chinese Nationalist government. Zhao could have stayed in the US or followed the Nationalist government to Taiwan, but his allegiance lay with the land of his birth and its people. The China that Zhao left had been a major US ally. Read more.

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 7, 2023

Those sentiments are echoed at the highest levels of state government. Lennar is also the largest builder in Sterling Ranch, an eco-conscious development about 20 miles south of Denver that opened in 2018 and incorporates state-of-the-art water recycling, leak detection, and landscape design. Housing policy is climate policy.”

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 9, 2021

Bridge Michigan and Circle of Blue interviewed experts in agriculture, water policy, climate adaptation, local government and business, asking them to envision what a climate-prepared Michigan might look like, and what it will take to get there. In December 2018, Pew Research Center asked 2,500 adults about their views of America in 2050. .

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Circle of Blue

MARCH 17, 2025

Social, political, economic, and supply chain instability. While water has defied becoming a priority political and investment issue, at the World Economic Forums annual meeting held in Davos, Switzerland in January, water was high on the agenda. What kind of opportunities should we be seizing in this changing political landscape?

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Circle of Blue

JUNE 30, 2021

Why it matters: In 2018, a World Economic Forum survey found that private sector executives in Egypt, Iran, Namibia, and Pakistan ranked “water crises” as the top business risk in their countries. Circle of Blue reported that fluctuations in the availability of fresh water are even more apparent the deeper one looks at the report.

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Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

After a wave of commitments to end international coal finance this year, this is the first international political commitment that also addresses public finance for oil and gas. A recent Abacus Data poll also found 62% of Canadians want the Canadian government to establish a plan to stop taxpayer subsidies going to the oil and gas industry.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 21, 2022

This Playbook updates the 2018 U.S. Climate Alliance member feedback and seeks to account for changing climate and political developments and… Read more → The 2021 Governors’ Climate Resilience Playbook outlines 12 foundational steps to set and achieve an effective state-level climate resilience agenda.

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Legal Planet

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Preparation, both in inter-sessional meetings and in diplomatic efforts by the Egyptian host government, was weak. There was no progress on getting national governments to state stronger ambitions in their NDCs, in the additional specification of global targets, or even in non-binding language regarding intentions to cut fossil fuels.

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Physics World

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Of course, climate politics is never as straightforward as it appears. Political targets. The models underpinning these figures often contain purely political targets for coal use and they assume India will follow the exact same development pathway as China. Right now coal, oil and natural gas account for 75% of energy use.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition (NSAC)

JUNE 5, 2024

This vote – nearly five and a half years after the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (2018 Farm Bill) was signed into law – was the first concrete step that the 118th Congress has taken toward passing a new farm bill. In response, Rep.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 15, 2024

The perpetrator of the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shootings engaged with and espoused anti-Jewish conspiracies on social media. But political scientist Scott Strauss found that only five to ten percent of Rwandans were exposed to radio broadcasts and there was no correlation between the initial violence and broadcast coverage. ‘The

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 19, 2022

It gradually became more frequent until the overflow became permanent in late 2018, with sewage engulfing their yards. of the 2019/20 budget and more than half – 52.5% – in the 2018/19 financial year. Johan said the sewer line started to get blocked on a regular basis from 2009. Her friends don’t visit anymore.”. It was 36.7%

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Acoel

JANUARY 20, 2023

An expensive proposition for government. The first challenge is political: we cannot afford to save everything, so that needs to be recognized and tough decisions will need to be made about what to do and what to save. And it won’t be led by the federal government. The rich, the poor, the elderly, the disabled, the young?

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 27, 2024

Steel For Air Pollution Violations At Clairton Coke [Coal] Works, 2 Other Facilities [PaEN] -- TribLive: Feds Approve US Steel Agreement With Allegheny County, Environmentalists Over 2018 Plant Fire -- AP: Bucks County Joins Other Local Governments In Suing Oil Industry Over Climate Change -- Center For Climate Integrity: What Is Climate Change Costing (..)

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Enviromental Defense

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Take action by telling the government to hold the oil and gas sector accountable for its pollution by urgently implementing a cap on emissions. Pierce proudly boasts about “driving government policy at federal and state levels” for the benefit of oil and gas companies. Is that you? million gas cars.

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Frontiers

JANUARY 10, 2022

To predict plastic accumulation zones in Mediterranean marine conservation areas, the researchers conducted a three-year simulation (between 2016 and 2018) of the distribution of plastic particles in the Mediterranean Sea using a so-called basin-scale particle drift model. Where do plastics accumulate?

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